Fergus Halliday
Award-winning journalist at Reviews.org Australia.
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- Reposted by Fergus Hallidayi made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
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- Hit send on a fresh new issue of Multiplier earlier today, which features a chat with one of the developers behind the intriguingly named Apothecary of City X. www.multiplier.au/why-do-we-wa...
- Next issue will fall close to my birthday and is going to be an absolute treat, so look forward to that.
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayWe're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.
- Steadily working my way through Divine Divinity and it reminds me a lot of Sacred. Increasingly curious if Larian will return to this weird combo of ARPG and CRPG with the new game or stick to the turn-based combat that's been so successful for them with OS and BG3.
- Would have loved to see it top the list but incredible to see it get as high as it did
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- Thinking about making a Nazgul MTG deck, the madness truly has set in.
- 'Wonder Man...good??' not on my bingo card for this year tbh
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayYou cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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- Still thinking about the finale of TBT. Honestly, if they want to get more people in theaters to see it, they should maybe post *that scene* on socials sooner rather than later.
- My other big thought watching TBT was that when I was younger, my esteem of most movies was weighted towards the sharpness of their dialogue and what they convey via their script vesus nowadays I am so much more prone to be moved by the awesome power of imagery alone.
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- It is so funny that they greenlit a trilogy of legacy sequels to 28 Days Later off the back of Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer hype and have now made not one but two of the best zombie movies I've ever seen
- (The Bone Temple is INCREDIBLE)
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- Reposted by Fergus HallidayReally enjoyed chatting to Kurt Kuhlmann, former Bethesda dev and Elder Scrolls "loremaster", about his decision to leave the studio and a promise Todd Howard made him about TES6 - a promise, he says, that was never fulfilled www.pcgamer.com/games/the-el...
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- Later promo post than usual because this week has been a blur but a great chat with @hojostudio.bsky.social about Arc Raiders went live over at Multiplier this week www.multiplier.au/has-the-extr...
- As good an excuse as any to announce that I have RETVRNED to the days of having a dedicated music player
- Got the chance to write a TV review for the first time in ages! TLDR; The Dunk & Egg show doesn't outstay its welcome and is a real treat. Special shoutout to everybody's new Baratheon, a terrific score and a return to shooting in Northern Ireland: www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/Review...
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- I played MTG Commander for the first time today and had a great time oh dear
- Absolutely bananas to see this rumour reach coverage on IGN status www.ign.com/articles/the...
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- Did not see this one coming. Granted, the show is great but it really seemed to slip under the radar www.whatsalanwatching.com/the-lowdown-...
- The Star Wars crowd does talk about Kennedy being replaced every other week but if this is true it's going to be *incredible* when that Mando movie flops.
- My contribution to this discourse is that imo 'good' endings release you from the story being told and there's just not as much to say about that because you are now Free to move on with your life.
- As opposed to a bad ending, which lives rent free in your mind forever because how could they possibly beef it that badly, etc.
- I'm beginning to believe that every generation gets its version of the Indoctrination Theory ew.com/stranger-thi...
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- I got this as a gift for Christmas and it is a) great, and b) extremely timely reading
- I had not heard of this one at all but WOW what a trailer this looks like a great time at the movies www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNF...
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayJust realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayCould an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
- Some notes about the pacing and use of invisible walls but otherwise really enjoying Black Myth Wukong. It's definitely Souls adjacent but distinct enough in ways that are very easy to have fun with.
- Somehow made it all the way to the end of Chapter 4 without realising I could upgrade armour/gourds, make medicines or unlock additional curio slots.
- Final issue of Multiplier for 2025 just went out. It features @hailtonothing.bsky.social and talks about going deep on Ball X Pit. Check it out! www.multiplier.au/how-will-bal...
- I can't remember if the first game was this way but there's a surprising amount of Borderlands 1 in The Outer Worlds 2 in terms of the broader zone and quest structures.
- Finished this one yesterday. I think it's pretty good as a more polished take on what the first game was trying to do. Second wave of companions way better than the first. Would love to see them do more systemic stuff rather than go bigger if they did a third one.
- Outer Worlds 3 with bigger maps is much less interesting than Outer Worlds 3 with more sandboxy interactions in maps that are just as big to me.
- For all the umming and ahhing that Cameron is doing about Avatar 4 and 5, I do think those movies will happen because even with diminishing returns it seems way more likely that Disney will greenlight more Avatar before throwing anything original into its end of year blockbuster slot.
- To say nothing of where Marvel is at or the apparent inability to make new Star Wars movies...
- Very torn between finally starting that second playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 or going back and working my way through the Divinity series ahead of that new one, which I have never given a proper look.
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayWatching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
- Between Shelved By Genre tackling Tolkien, my own journey through Wheel of Time and new seasons of TROP, HOTD and the Dunk & Egg TV show, 2026 seems like a year in which I will be unbelievably back on my fantasy bullshit.
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayThis week I wrote a feature for ZeroIndent about Dustpunk by @jamespatton.bsky.social, a clock-dice RPG that captures the sweaty, desperation of revolution, and the necessity of hope and compassion: zeroindent.com/dustpunk-an-...
- Been a few years but wow Knives Out is really good. I totally forgot how much Christopher Plummer was in this movie.
- The steady creep of IP onto everything is bad but also a Warcraft or Warhammer-flavored take on Songs of Silence would rip actually
- Kicking off my first day of my leave with my yearly GOTY list over on Multiplier www.multiplier.au/fergus-halli...
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- I heard someone compare GRRM to Stephen King on a podcast the other day and I can't stop thinking about the implications of reading Westeros as a deeply American take on traditional fantasy.
- Apologies if this is a very basic take, I've always defaulted to reading ASOIAF as a critique of romanticism and the genre of fantasy more broadly.
- Reposted by Fergus HallidayI spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages." Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder. I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
- We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
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- Yesterday was such a trip that I fully forgot to post about the new issue of Multiplier! It's great stuff and features @wristwork.bsky.social and I talking about clicker games www.multiplier.au/when-did-cli...
- Well, The War Between The Land And The Sea being way better than it has any right to be was not on my bingo card.
- It feels like the first episode of the new Fallout did more with Kyle McLachlan than the entire first season.
- Reposted by Fergus Hallidaycurrent news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you
- Ah, a timely reminder that I need to find a viable replacement for Firefox.
